Embers of Embers

Chapter 31 Holy Flame
It seems that the whole world has lost its light, and there is only unrecognizable darkness in the field of vision. Eve is walking in the dark corridor, and she is still looking forward to the arrival of light. As Lorenzo said, people who have lived in darkness for a long time are here. When you see the light, it's hysterical madness.
Lorenzo and Eve were going deeper at the moment. Ever since the stomach grass got out of the restraint, the two of them didn't stop moving until they reached here.
The great detective didn't know where the two of them were. They were surrounded by dead darkness and couldn't tell their direction at all. At this time, crazy sounds kept sounding.
It was a sound coming from behind the wall. It was weird, unspeakable, and creepy. It seemed like there were thousands of steel needles gently rubbing against the wall, and it seemed like there were countless poisonous snakes rolling their scales, making that sizzling sound.
"It's the Stomach Grass. It's a body of flesh and blood and tentacles. Calling it a grass is just similar to the characteristics of a plant, but its essence is still a demon. Now it has escaped from trouble."
Lorenzo's voice came from the darkness, but Eve couldn't see his figure, which felt really bad.
"what should we do?"
"Going up, we need to find a way out. Sooner or later we will be eaten clean by stomachweeds here."
A hand reached out from the darkness and grabbed Eve. It was Lorenzo, who lit another cigarette so that Eve could confirm his location.
The corridor extends in all directions, and the route is easy to confirm that all the way up is enough, but as the two of them ascended, the corridor began to shake violently. This phenomenon occurred in the hall, and it seemed that someone was shelling towards the underground palace.
"Will he be the one who saves us?"
In this fatal situation, Eve has forgotten that Lorenzo took advantage of her, and now she just wants to escape from this nightmare place.
"Probably not. It stands to reason that Su Yalan Hall would not have such heavy firepower as artillery, but the only one who knows we are here tonight is Su Yalan Hall. If he wants to mobilize weapons of this kind of firepower, he needs to apply to the military department, but even if he applies There’s no reason to arrive so soon.”
Dust fell from the walls of the corridor, one layer after another, as if the place would collapse in the next second.
"Unless...unless there is another group of people..."
The whole incident seemed to become clearer, and Lorenzo trudged forward, trying to find the exit.
Tonight has nothing to do with Lorenzo. This is a game between Sabo and another force. Those demons are not prepared for him, but for those who attack here. Lorenzo and Eve just accidentally entered this battle. Little cotton sheep.
"Do you smell anything?"
Eve sniffed the air and seemed to notice something.
Lorenzo took out the cigarette, and the fragrance of tobacco interfered with his judgment to a certain extent.
There was a clear sound of his breathing in the darkness, and there was a moment of silence before Lorenzo's voice sounded again.
"One good news, one bad news."
Pulling Eve, Lorenzo ran directly in the corridor, paying no attention to the sound of the stomach grass. The two of them seemed to be in a hurry to die.
"The good news is that a group of more professional people have come to rescue us. They know that using kerosene to seal the underground palace. Demons are afraid of flames, which can weaken them to a great extent."
Lorenzo shouted.
"The bad news is that we are also in the dungeon, and they will burn us to death!"
The thick smell of smoke could be clearly smelled in the darkness, and it was felt at such a deep place. It was hard to imagine what the fire above looked like.
"Then shall we continue upward?"
Eve immediately panicked. If she continued to go up, she would definitely collide with the sea of ​​​​fire, but if she continued to go down, she would have no way out.
"Down! The underground palace is so deep and has so many people. It must have its own drainage system. We need to find that."
Lorenzo quickly thought of a new route, and he was fully prepared before coming to the underground palace.
"The underground drainage system of Old Dunling serves the entire steam system. It is spread throughout every corner of the city. Huge steam gushes out from the underground steam engines, and the accumulated rainwater will fall again, and all this will eventually return to the Thames river."
After being around Old Dun Ling for so long, Lorenzo has already absorbed all the knowledge about Old Dun Ling in his mind.
"There must be an culvert for discharging sewage in this underground palace. As long as we find that one, we can directly follow the channel back to the Thames River!"
This detective showed incredible reliability in escaping. At this moment, he didn't do much to hide it. He directly waved his staff and sword to cut open the iron door at the end of his field of vision. After running for so long, this was the first time Lorenzo had seen him. A door, and no matter what was inside, he had to go in and see.
The iron door cracked, and then thick smoke poured into the corridor. The two of them felt a blazing heat as soon as they stepped in.
This seems to be under the hall, and there is a firelight at the end of the darkness, and it is approaching quickly.
Its body was on fire, and it made a whimpering sound as it moved forward. Its tentacles scraped against the wall, making a sound like the friction of scales.
"I guess that's the companion demon of the Stomach Grass."
Lorenzo looked a bit ugly. Just like the flowers in nature, the stomach grass can provide shelter for the monster, but similarly, the seeds of the stomach grass will also parasitize the monster's body, and grow iron branches on the ferocious body. red grass.
Raising the shotgun in his hand, Lorenzo directly pulled the trigger, and then countless projectiles hit the flesh with great force. Blood spattered, but then more tentacles emerged from the wound. Growth, severe pain and the desire for flesh and blood drive the deformed demon forward.
"Run away and if you see something like a ditch, hold your breath and jump in!"
Lorenzo didn't back down, but said to Eve coldly.
"how about you?"
Eve was a little confused. Could it be that Lorenzo wanted to deal with the monster alone?
"Run! You'll only get in the way if you stay here!"
The demon began to run wildly, Lorenzo shouted angrily, and then pushed Eve away. The girl staggered a few steps, looked at the figure in front of the fire, as if she had made up her mind, and turned around He ran hard and shouted at the same time.
"I'll wait for you behind!"
In such a fatal situation, someone actually said that they would wait for you. In the past, Lorenzo would have been moved to tears, but it was different now. The critical nature of the situation did not allow him to think about anything else.
In essence, hunting monsters is a very dangerous job. Everything about monsters corrodes the human spirit, not to mention fighting with them at close range and bathing in the blood of the enemy.
Even Lorenzo couldn't guarantee that he could maintain his sanity in this situation, so Eve had to leave. Of course, there were some other factors, such as the next thing that must not be known to others.
He picked up the sharp staff and sword, and at the moment when the demon was about to hit Lorenzo, the detective's figure twisted strangely. This was an action that was absolutely impossible with ordinary people's flexibility, but he just achieved it, and from then on The huge figure found a blind spot, and then used force to cross it. At the same time, the staff and sword cut into the body, bringing out large amounts of blood.
The demon let out a hoarse scream, and then the tentacles on its body seemed to wake up, fighting strangely like a group of snakes, and swarmed towards Lorenzo, but what greeted them was only a sharp white light.
Lorenzo was leaning on his staff and sword, and a slight white air rose from under his clothes, like steam.
The gray-blue pupils began to shrink, and finally turned into vertical pupils like that of a wild beast. It seemed that something was crawling under his body, but because of the clothes, only a faint bulge could be seen. He slowly raised his sword. , the tip of the sword pointed downward slightly, he was still on the edge of reason.
The next second, the demon roared and advanced, its tentacles like waving sharp swords. As long as it touched flesh and blood, the tiny mouthparts on it would bite everything, but the sword light fell like thunder, like a guillotine. Cut off everything.
The figure rolled rapidly. After entering that strange state, Lorenzo's body functions were continuously strengthened. He ran faster and drew his sword faster. It was even said that he could directly jump over the huge demon just by jumping on the spot. body of.
After that, the shotgun launched an attack from above, and the dense pellets hit the demon's head accurately, opening a gap as big as a bowl. Lorenzo directly abandoned the shotgun and let it fall casually.
All this fatal thing happened in just a few seconds. Lorenzo's body was still in mid-air, and his legs were pushing hard against the wall. Using this force, he held the sword in both hands and stabbed with lightning speed. .
It was the falling thunder, the flaming sword that judged the demons.
The sharp staff sword stabbed directly along the gap made by the shotgun and penetrated the demon's head. But at this time, the stomach grass also captured Lorenzo, and countless mouthparts bit him tightly, like With the swarming pack of wolves, at the eating speed seen in the deep pit, Lorenzo would be devoured in ten seconds. Even if he escapes now, his body will be parasitized by Stomachweed. , the only thing waiting for him is death.
Endless blood poured out of the body, leaving only a bony bone on the monster's body. This was supposed to be the next plot, but none of this happened.
It was very difficult to eat, at least for the Stomachweed. The mouthparts bit through Lorenzo's skin and greedily sucked the warm blood, but soon the demon, which was not much, IQ realized one thing.
It was blood that made demons unappetizing, and Lorenzo's body exuded the same aura as their demons. It seemed that in this short period of time, this human became a demon. It was confused, but was immediately followed by severe pain. Covers everything.
Blood-red tentacles surrounded Lorenzo, but in the gaps between the tentacles, endless white flames were released and rose, burning every part of the demon.
"It hurts, right?"
In the white fireworks, Lorenzo looked crazy. His blood was burning, like some kind of chemical agent, which obviously had no effect when it flowed outside the body, but when it touched the demon's flesh and blood, it began to burn crazily.
Leaning on the stick sword tightly, the blood extended along the lines of the blade to the flesh and blood, and then a more intense flame ignited, every inch of the monster's flesh and blood was burned to ashes under the holy flame, but it could not hurt to Lorenzo himself.
The huge body rushed forward, and it tried to throw Lorenzo off, but the detective just stayed there, like a nail on its head, and the grass in its stomach surged heavily, but the result was the same. engulfed by a larger fire.
The roaring impact lasted for a long time, like a battle between trapped beasts, until finally the monster slowly stopped, and it died.
The holy white flames burned through its body. Inside the huge corpse were only unburned flesh, flesh and ashes. Lorenzo paused for a long time before slowly getting up with his staff and sword. His face was pale and he could not even stand.
He usually prepares a lot in advance to fight monsters, but the life in old Dunling made him forget everything in the past. He thought the monsters were dead, but they still came back today.
The demon was burned alive by Lorenzo's blood, but Lorenzo was also in a daze due to excessive blood loss. He picked up the shotgun and moved forward slowly using his staff and sword as a crutch.
He gently stroked his back, which was Lorenzo's spine, but unlike a normal person's spine, he had a very obvious bulge there.
"The bolt of silver binding is still intact..."
He let out a long sigh, not knowing why he felt lucky.
But just when Lorenzo was about to let down his guard, the instinctive warning rose again, coming from in front of Lorenzo, in the direction Eve left.
(End of this chapter)